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In the Rheinische Post, Marc Ingel reports on initiatives that have raised money for charitable institutions – including Jeannie, who organised a flea market in her vintage shop in aid of KRASS. We say thank you! you can read the whole article (in German) here.

Claudia Seidensticker was honoured with the Youth Culture Prize of the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland 2024. The award, which comes with prize money of 10,000 euros, recognises the association’s commitment to providing children and young people in Düsseldorf with access to art and cultural education in their immediate neighbourhood.

It’s not just the contact with art and culture that the KRASS association has been bringing to children and young people since it was founded in 2009. It is self-confidence, courage, perspective, openness, tolerance and the message ‘you are important’. Crucial experiences, especially for disadvantaged children and young people. The outstanding commitment of founder Claudia…

“Everyone is an artist!”. The phrase coined by Joseph Beuys sums up our KRASSE philosophy in a nutshell. We would like to thank Claudia Hötzendorfer for the wonderful article about the project generously sponsored by Margarete Sonnen! You can read the article here.

KRASS has found a permanent home in Eller: In the Bürgerhaus Eller.

“Faces for a healthy coexistence”: Under this motto, more than 200 projects and individuals nationwide took part in a competition for special health commitment. Second place went to KRASS e.V. with the project: “The movement offensive”.

In the “Lokalzeit aus Düsseldorf” the WDR reported about the KRASS-Mobil and its autumnal journey through Düsseldorf. The whole report can be seen on the website of the WDR: [Link to the contribution]

TRIER. The city of Trier and the KRASS e.V. association have released a child protection song. The music video is intended to encourage children and adolescents in difficult situations to seek help promptly – for example, if they are being abused, mistreated, or bullied, if they are suffering from their parents’ separation, or if they…

KRASS e. V., whose founder Claudia Seidensticker was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia this year, is dedicating this year’s summer party with 80 invited guests entirely to the volunteers who are the main supporters of the association. “Without civic engagement, our work would be unthinkable. We have biologists, cooks…

Since the beginning of the year, the KRASS association has a new domicile: rooms in an old villa on Vennhauser Allee. In addition to the rooms on the ground floor, where the children’s projects, the art workshops, Naku (“tutoring meets art”) take place and cooking is done daily for the children, there is also a…